Outside of prayers of confession, lament, illumination, and intercession there are also opportunities in our worship to offer up prayers of praise and thanksgiving. These can be short bursts of praise following an assurance of pardon, the sacraments, or at the conclusion of worship, or they can take the form of longer litanies of praise for specific services of thanksgiving. Some traditions refer to specific moments of sung prayers of praise as “doxologies.” Our God is a great God and is always worthy of praise!
This is the first Sunday in Advent from the series "Grounded and Growing—A Series for Advent and Christmas" with the theme, "A Shoot from a Stump—A Sign of Hope". This includes background information for worship planning and sermon prep, a service outline, a downloadable image, along with other creative suggestions.
We can use language to open the door to true worship by the grace of God, but he makes that worship true in every heart, not us. Repetition can be the tool needed on a particular Sunday to hammer through the walls of hardened hearts or it can be the means by which worship rises to a climactic crescendo of praise. We labor in the fields, but God brings about the harvest.
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